The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

Release pcmanfm-qt 0.17.0

The LXQt team is proud to announce the release of pcmanfm-qt 0.17.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

  • Natural keyboard navigation on Desktop.
  • Creation time is supported.
  • A menu-item is added to the Tools menu for opening the current directory as admin (with GVFS).
  • “Create Launcher” is added to the Tools menu.
  • An option is added for max. file size with external thumbnailers.
  • Always focus the visible view on opening a new tab.
  • Close file tooltips on key pressing or changing directory/filter/sorting.
  • Several small fixes.


A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.